1996 Auburn psychology graduate Becca Coluntano and Chad Watkins met at the gym. It didn’t take long. They’re cut from the same cloth. They talk the same trash — one about Alabama, one about Auburn. One day in 2004, Becca walked in in an Auburn shirt, not thinking twice about it, encountering the enemy at a […]
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Bill Holbrook’s ‘The Thing That Ate Auburn’
The Plainsman has had some great cartoonists over the college years. But there was this stretch from the early 70s through the early 80s where there was some real, like, graphic novel quality stuff happening in the editorial pages. Case in pointiest: “Kevin and Kell,” “Safe Havens,” and “On The Fastrack” creator Bill Holbrook‘s copyrighted […]
The Girl With The Iron Bowl Lip Tattoo
So, Hailey Conquest and her boyfriend are tailgating with some of his friends before the Tennessee game, and they’re talking about the way it used to be up in the student section and everything — shoulder-to-shoulder, standing the whole time, rushing the field, all the great Pre-Covid stuff. And, so, of course the 2017 Iron […]
LISTEN: The Kick Six changed Amanda Johnson’s voice forever
Sometimes, instead of trying to raise her voice to explain why she can’t really raise her voice in a restaurant or through her mask at work or whatever, she’ll just say “Google me.” This is what comes up. That was written two years ago. Yesterday, I interviewed her again. Hear how the Kick Six is […]
Work, Good Work
Fan fiction usually comes from fans of fiction. But what if, rather than 50-page Word documents on Luke Skywalker’s childhood, a fan brought fan-fiction-level enthusiasm to Auburn Football? Has that ever happened? Yes, it has. Like a lot of Auburn fans of his generation, Josh Dowdy’s grew up primarily under the influence of two men […]